Casket-handle



E. R. SARGENT.

CASKET HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 14. 1920.

L34 1 56, Patented Jul 12, 1921;

EDWARD 1a. SARG-ENT, or NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO SARGENT & COMPANY, or NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION or CONNECTICUT.

CASKET-HANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 12, 1921.

Application filed May 14, 1920. Serial No. 381,319.

To all whom it may Concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD R. SARGENT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New Haven, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Casket-Handles, of

which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to casket handles, and especially to those types of handles wherein the handle bar is held in arms-pivotally mounted, on the side of the casket.

The invention also has special reference to casket handles wherein the arms pivotally mounted upon the side of the casket are made of soft metal.

v One object of this invention is to provide an improved means for securing the handle bars of a casket handle to the pivoted arms thereof- 7 Another object of this invention is to provide a strengthening brace for the pivoted arms of a casket handle,-of improved character.

A still further object of this invention is to provide a strengthening brace in an arm of this character which will be capable of being used with handle bars of various diameters.

To these and other ends, the invention consists in the novel features and combinations of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a casket handle, embodying my inventions, the socket plates being omitted Fig. 2 is an enlarged rear elevational view of one of the ends of the handle showing the mounting of the bar in the arm and tip;

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, but showing a slightly dilferent form of mounting used with a bar of smaller diameter;

F ig. 4 is a proved brace; and

Fig. 5 is a view similar to rigs. 2and 3,

7 but showing a still different form of mount- While in the accompanying drawings I have shown my invention as applied to casket handles wherein the handle ,bar is of circular cross section, and wherein the arm and tip are cast in one piece, it will be unperspective View of my imderstood that certain features and improvements are equally applicable to other types of bars and handles, and I do not desire to be restricted to the exact form shown.

In the embodiment of my invention illustrated by the accompanying drawings, I have shown in Fig. 1 a casket handle comprising the usual handle bar 10, circular in cross section, and the usual arms 11 and. ornamental tips 12. The arms 11 and tips 12 are, in practice, made of soft metal, while the bars 10 are, in their usual form, of tube or bar construction. The material of which the parts are made, however, may be varied without afi'ecting the merits or the principle of the invention described herein.

As the soft metal of which the arms are made is expensive and is not possessed of greatstrength, it is usual to dispense with some of this metal at the rear of the arm and to provide a brace of hard metal to give the arm the necessary rigidity. With my improved brace and fastening means, I am enabled to dispense with practically all of the soft metal on the rear half of the arm and-still secure the bar firmly in place.

.I have provided the arms 11 with a brace member 14 of hard metal, which consists of an upper shank portion 15 and a lower broadened portion 16, provided with an opening 17, circular in shape, in the form shown to conform to the shape of the handle bar 10. In Figs. 2, 3 and 4, this brace is shown as provided with oppositely p;osi tioned lugs 18 on the lower portion 16 of the arm, through one of which a screw or nail 19 is adapted to be inserted to secure the bar against movement within the handle. It is to be noted that only one of these lugs is to be used at a time, but the two are provided that the same brace member may be used on either the right or the left end of the handle. For the same purpose both sides of the shank portion 15 of the brace are substantially identical in shape, thus rendering the entire brace symmetrical in shape with respect to a central longitudinal line.

As shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 5, the soft metal armis cast about the brace 14, in such a shape as to leave a bore or opening for the reception of the bar. In Fig. 3, the brace 14 is generally centrally disposed longitudi- Rally of this bore 20, and the bar 10 is inserted this bore, passing through the ring struction is that the same brace may be used with handle bars of various sizes. If, for instance, the opening 17 will snugly receive a three-quarter inch bar and it is desired to use a seven-eighth bar which is too large to enter the opening, the brace is reversed so that the lugs l8'ex'tend towardthe tip of the handle,'-as shown in Fig. '2. The arm 10.is then inserted and instead of passing through the opening-17, the edge of the bar abuts the border-16 of this opening. The screw 19 is then inserted through the lug 18 and through a wooden bar 23' usually provided withinthe bar 10. The bore'in this arm'is shown as of dilferent diameters on the oppo site sides of the brace 14, the outer bore '21,

being of a diameter to receive a large barv 10, while the inner bore 22 is'designed to receive a smaller bar, which would pass through the opening 17 in the brace. It is thusseen that the same brace, without being varied in any of its proportions, may not only be used for right andleft arms, but

also be used for bars of different diameters,

in fact any diameter that will passwithin the bores 20 or 21. Those bars that will not pass through between the lugs 18' and through the opening 17, will abut against the ring portion 16, and the'lug screwed tolthe innerwooden bar 23.

7 .In Fig.5, I have shown an arm 11, having a'bore 24' which is shaped to fit'the endof the arm adjacent the tip 12. When the'bar' 10 is firmly pressed into this properly shaped bore'of soft metal, it will be lodged therein so that no securing means such as the lug and screw shown in the other forms" are needed. The wooden inner bar 23 may also bedispensed with in this form. The braces 14 shown in this figure may also be used at 3 theright or' left end of the hand1e, or, if desired, this bore may be used when the lug 18 is" provided and bars of different sizes used, other than those which would just snugly fit the bore. a V

WVhile have shown my invent1on applied to a casket handle having the arm and tip thereofcast in a single piece, it is to be understood that it' is not limited to use with this particulartype of handle but may also be used with a handle of the form shown in my prior PatentNo. 1,164,220, granted D ecember 14, 1915, where from thearm.

It will be apparent capable of other embodiments and modifica tions without departing from the spirit the tip is separate claims.

that the invention is" porting arm therefor, a brace for said arm provided with an opening for the reception of said bar, said brace being adapted for use in reversed positions at the right or leftend of said bar.

4.'In a casket handle, a handle bar, a

supporting arm therefor, a brace for said arm provided with an opening for the reception.of said bar, and means'on said brace adapting 1t for use 1n reversed p'ositlons with the arm at either end of said bar.

5 In a casket handle, a supporting arm-, a"

brace therefor, s'aid brace being adapted to be associated with said arm in reversed positions.

'6. In a casket handle, a handle bar, an arm having a bore for the reception 'ofsaid bar, one endof said bore being of less diameter than the other.

. I .95 7. In a casket'handlaa supportingarm 7 having a bore, said bore being divided :tra'nsversely into sections of different diameters. 8. In a casket handle, a supporting arm having a bore, said bore being divided transversely into sections of different diameters, v7 and a strengthening brace at said point of division.

9. Ina "casket handle, a supporting arm, having a bore, a strengthening brace therefor having an opening coinciding withs aid V bore, said brace being situated in the soft metal of the supporting arm, the bore of the ice arm on one side of said brace being smaller in diameter than the bore on the other side.

10.. In a casket handle, a handlebar supporting arm, and meansto operatively connect sald arm to handle bars of dlffer'ent sizes.

11. In casket handle, a handle barand a supporting arm provided with a strengthf I ening brace, said arm and brace being adapted to be used with handle bars of different sectional areas. i

12. In a casket handle, handle bar, a supporting arm and a strengthening brace therefor, the front and. rear portions of said brace being symmetrically shaped with respectto a central longitudinal line, so that it may be used with an'arm at either end of the handle bar."

In witness whereof, I havehereunto set I I [my hand on this 12th day of May, 1920. thereof'o" from the scope of the a pended i EDWARD n. sAneENrr." 

